There will be no home gold medal for France’s footballers at Paris 2024. Instead it was Spain who ended up 5-3 winners of an astonishing men’s final after Sergio Camello scored twice in extra time at the Parc des Princes.
This was a genuinely wild game, an eight-goal, two-hour, see-saw thriller, decorated with brilliant goals, saves, comebacks and an added time VAR equaliser. France will feel unlucky not to have made a long spell of sustained pressure tell. The greatest compliment for Spain’s performance was that it was in its best moments just very Spanish.
